Merely three weeks after the Hungarian-led inspection in Ukraine, between 30 September and 04 October, a Ukrainian-led multinational inspection team conducted two, so called “declared site” inspection in Hungary based on the provisions of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (the CFE Treaty).
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent his condolences in a letter to Ms Miet Smet, the widow of Wilfried Martens, co-founder and president of the European People's Party, and Belgium's former prime minister.
On 9 October, Foreign Minister János Martonyi held a meeting with Speaker of Serbian Parliament Nebojša Stefanović, who is in Hungary to hold bilateral talks and take part in the meeting of Speakers of Parliament from the Western Balkans and Hungary.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary has learned with deep sorrow and sadness about the passing of Mr. Wilfried Martens.
The Hungarian-Mongolian Business Forum organized by the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which was also supported by Hungary’s Ministry for National Economy, held on 8 October 2013 in Budapest was an event which attracted great interest.
Hungary is one of the special guests at the Golden Autumn agriculture and food industry exhibition, which opened in Moscow on Wednesday. The Hungarian delegation is headed by Minster for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas.
The transport ministers of Eastern Partnership countries adopted a Joint Declaration at their second meeting in Luxembourg on 9 October, 2013. The parties agreed to continue cooperation as well as the gradual approximation of the regulatory legislation to the EU law in all transport areas. The ministers also approved the map of regional transport networks and the list of priority infrastructure development projects.
"Water is not only the most valuable but also the most crucial and strategic resource of the 21st century, and it therefore requires special management and protection", Zoltán Illés declared at the session of the China Europe Water Platform in Budapest on Wednesday. The Ministry of Rural Development's Minister of State for Environmental Affairs pointed out that in future, most of the conflicts throughout the world would be caused by a lack of water.
CEPOL, the EU organisation responsible for setting up and conducting training programmes for police officers, will be located in Hungary – said Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér in Luxembourg.
The Ministry for National Economy is launching an employment programme for those unemployed women who are older than 55 years and who have less than one year of the 40-year employment period required for retirement, Minister of State for Employment Sándor Czomba said at a press conference in Budapest.